It would help if Piotr would also declare that cybalist moderators are against evolutionist nonsense as much as against creationist nonsense .There are forms...
... Neither "evolutionist" nor "creationist" ideas are relevant to Cybalist discussions. As an aside: I'm not sure what you understand by "evolutionist...
... Probably from Gothic, possibly through Ossetic intermediacy. If I had my references handy I could cite several examples of such loanwords into Caucasian...
... C. C. Uhlenbeck, PBB 22:189 (1897): "... 4. <Galga>. Auffällig anklingend an got. <galga> (urverwant mit lit. <z^algà>, armen. <dzak> 'stange') ist...
... I thought that sounded familiar. Jorma Koivulehto THE EARLIEST CONTACTS BETWEEN INDO-EUROPEAN AND URALIC SPEAKERS IN THE LIGHT OF LEXICAL LOANS in Early...
... *tout-/tu:t-s-k^ant-/-k^unt- (metathesis in Lith. tukst- ?) in which *tout-/tu:t-s is genitive of *tout-/tu:t- "all; totality" and ka^nt-/k^unt- is my...
I didn't know where to cut up this article, so I post it all. The point is to show that the archaeological facts do not contradict a scenario in which Denmark...
... At the time-depth in question, would we not expect the first element of such a compound to exhibit the stem-form, as in Alamanni, Alaric, Teutorix, etc.?...
... Erh, what is the time depth in question? My idea is that the whole *tout-/tu:t-s-k^ant-/-k^unt- thing is a loan anyway and that that form is not...
... It had to antedate Grimm's shift. For me to be convinced that such a formation, with genitival /s/ between two consonants in the middle of a compound,...
... Finn. /h/ is regular with Proto-Baltic loanwords to Proto-Finno-Ugric; see e.g. Finn. <hammas> 'tooth' from PB *z^ambas (Lith. <z^âmbas> 'edge', but Grk....
... Cf. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64957 I left out a note to the above quote, which I shouldn't have, I discover, since it's...
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_%28title%29 'A khan controls a khanate (sometimes spelled chanat. Mongolian: khaant). In the Mongolian language, "khan"...
... If memory serves, the Ems is the Amisia in Tacitus, so Emer-gewe is to be expected; the form Ems must have had no vocalic extension after the stem, *ames-...
... Objection, they would, or at least within a sufficiently small distance that it was known to them; only as long as Grimm's law functioned as a sociological...
... Haste makes waste. I should have checked Emergewe in Google Books before guessing. The prevailing view is that it is a Schreibfehler; one source cites as...
... Another possible mechanism is Frankish intermediacy. Kluge compares French <Chivert> with OHG <Hiltibert>. One might also cite the first examples of...
... In the line of flotsam and marine detritus (mostly seaweed) on the beaches in this part of he world where you usually find amber in this part of the world...
... Apparently there was no other way for them to explain it. ... Value judgment. ... Note, Old Frisian. Non-Germanic survivals to be expected. ... -husa? As...
... And I think the origin is NWB. No compelling reason, but it wins on Occam: fewest suppositions. ... Forget *dem(x)-. Latin dom-us tells us it's loaned as...